by design | Mar 17, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The Coming Trump Recession By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com If Trump loves tariffs so, then why doesn’t he use them to try to alter Chinese behavior? I don’t mean this piddling 10% increase either. China is a bad actor. It is the source...
by design | Mar 10, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Fortress America By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com It looks like Trump will abandon Ukraine in his pivot toward Russia. That should come as no surprise to the Ukrainians, who are accustomed to being abandoned by the United States and left...
by design | Mar 3, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Reciprocal Tariffs, Now I Get It … I Think By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I have called Trump’s tariffs “stupid,” and they are – maybe. I still don’t understand the across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which...
by design | Feb 24, 2025 | Black, Columnist
The Trump Doctrine and Palestinian Diaspora By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com Trump’s crazy talk (how my sainted mother would have characterized it) is producing results. He threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs and they strengthened...
by design | Feb 17, 2025 | Black, Columnist
Why did Putin invade Ukraine? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I was wondering why Putin invaded Ukraine. It was obvious that he was going to do so. You don’t amass 200,000 troops on the Ukraine border just to have a parade. Putin...
by design | Feb 10, 2025 | Black, Columnist
You Know You’re Old When … By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com You know you are old if: Your hair is growing in your ears and not on your head. Every artist you listen to is dead. The last movie you saw was “African Queen.” Old ladies...
